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AVEtec Energy Corporation

AVEtec Energy Corporation. We produce perfectly green electrical energy from low temperature heat. For more information visit: http://vortexengine.ca. Contact: Louis Michaud, P. Eng. President, AVEtec Energy Corporation 1269 Andrew Ct. Sarnia, Ontario, N7V 4H4

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AVEtec Energy Corporation

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  1. AVEtec Energy Corporation We produce perfectly green electrical energy from low temperature heat. For more information visit: http://vortexengine.ca Contact: Louis Michaud, P. Eng. President, AVEtec Energy Corporation 1269 Andrew Ct. Sarnia, Ontario, N7V 4H4 Email: lmichaud@vortexengine.ca Tel: (519)-542-4464

  2. Work is produced when heat is carried upward by convection in the atmosphere because more work is produced by the expansion of a warm gas than is required to compress the same gas after it has been cooled. Atmospheric Vortex Engine • The Atmospheric Vortex Engine harnesses work of convection to produce electricity.

  3. Generic AVE side view

  4. Generic AVE plan view

  5. Wet cooling tower AVE – Side view Capacity approximately 200 MW

  6. Typical Vortex Engine Size • Circular wall diameter 50 to 200 m • Circular wall height 30 to 80 m • Vortex base diameter 20 to 100 m • Vortex height 1 to 20 km • Heat input 1000 MW. 20, 50 MW cooling cells • Electrical output 200 MW. 20, 10 MW turbines • Specific work 1000 to 20000 J/kg • Air flow 20 to 100 Mg/s • Water flow 40 to 200 Mg/s

  7. Electricity from Atmospheric Convection Manzanares Solar Chimney 200 m high, 10 m diameter Collector 0.04 sq. km 50 kW, 130 J/kg, 1 Mg/s Efficiency 0.2% Spain 1982 to 1989 EnviroMission Solar Chimney 1km high, 130 m diameter Collector40 sq. km 200 MW, 800 J/kg, 300 Mg/s Efficiency 1.5% Australia, 2008+ • The AVE replaces the physical chimney with centrifugal force in a vortex. • The AVE eliminates the solar collector by using waste heat or natural low temperature heat sources.

  8. Cooling Towers Mechanical Draft: $15 million 40 m tall mechanical draft tower uses 1% of power produced to drive fans. (uses energy) Natural Draft: doesn’t need fans but is 150 m tall and costs $60 million. (saves energy) Vortex Cooling Tower: $15 million 40 m tall to function like a natural draft tower. (produces energy!)

  9. Vortex in 1 meter diameter physical model

  10. 1 meter diameter physical model – side view

  11. 1 meter diameter physical model – top view

  12. Proposed 4 m diameter prototype transparent wall view

  13. Petrolia 4 m prototype vortex Video available at: http://vortexengine.ca/LM6/20080925155414-1.mpg

  14. CFD Results • Ontario Centre of Excellence (OCE) and the University of Western Ontario (UWO) Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory (BLWTL) recently completed a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) study of the AVE • Results for a 1 m diameter model simulation with a domain height of 2 m are shown below

  15. Natural Vortices Waterspout Tornado

  16. Hurricane NASA

  17. Fire whirls Accidental Deliberate Source: Nate Smith

  18. Courage Source: Nate Smith

  19. A Comparison of the Earth’s Stored Energy Resources Crude Oil Reserves Latent heatof water vapor in the bottom kilometer of the atmosphere Heat content of tropical ocean water 100 m layer, 3°C 100 m depth 1 km height 7.3 x 1021 J 13 x 1021 J 130 x 1021 J Replenishment times 109 years 10 days 100 days

  20. It is all about upward heat flow. • Energy is produced when water is lowered. • Energy is produced when heat rises. • The energy produced in a large hurricane is more than • all the energy produced by humans in a whole year. • A mid size tornado can produce as much energy as • a large power plant. • Atmospheric upward heat convection has an enormous • energy production potential. • There is no need for a dedicated solar collector. • The solar heat collector is the earth’s surface in its • unaltered state.

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